Eric Schaffer Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York

• Line produces the #1 news program on business television daily, communicating clearly & effectively with the production team & talent
• Serves as a key editorial link between talent and staff
• Plans daily and future editorial content for the show
• Supervises the development of guest segments with our associate producers and associate producer
• Fill in for showrunner and/or senior producer if either are not working
• Can fill in the role as booker to handle logistics, greet guests and booking needs for guests and hosts

Rye Brook, NY

• Manager and copy editor for 3 simultaneous hyper-local newscasts for Hudson Valley, Long Island and New Jersey from 12pm – 5pm and a live hour-long 5pm newscasts that airs across all three zones
• Cultivates and researches stories and approves scripts for up to 20 reporters per shift covering 3 different regions of the tri-state area
• Takes leadership role in ensuring high story count and continuous updating of network’s highest rated newscasts
• Filled in for 8 months as Managing Editor to lead our assignment desk department & manage day-to-day story planning and special projects
• Manages and booths live breaking news coverage and planned live coverage of major events such as Clinton & Obama mail bombings, measles outbreaks in Rockland County & Brooklyn and the congressional hearings for William.
• In charge of planning, training and rollout of innovative tools such as Dataminr, Streetsmart & Fresco

New York, NY

• Dataminr is a real-time information discovery company for enterprise clients
• Dataminr transforms the public Twitter stream into possible breaking news & feature stories, identifying the most relevant information in real-time for clients in Finance, News & the public sector
• A domain expert detects breaking news on Twitter in real-time & alerts it media partners like CNN, BBC & USA Today
• Makes autonomous editorial decisions based on the credibility of the Twitter user & the content of the Tweet
• Possess a deep understanding of developing stories to detect new & relevant information

• Wrote stories & line produced for national online & TV news network
• Assigned stories & guided team on style and execution of stories on weekends
• Made final approval of scripts & finished projects before they make air
• Worked with management to streamline workflow & provide leadership on major news projects like the March on Washington anniversary & JFK assassination anniversary
• Coordinated with web team to improve functionality of company’s website & smartphone application

Bronx, New York

• Responsibility for producing evening newscasts for the Bronx and Brooklyn, handing up to three 30-minute newscasts in a given day
• Proficient at independently confirming breaking news and coordinating reporters and photographers on getting the information on air
• Proficient at getting information on our Facebook and Twitter pages for breaking news
• Have built my own Rolodex of “sources” in Bronx and Brooklyn to independently pitch and coordinate story ideas for reporters
• Proficient at “coaching” new Academy reporters on content, writing style and video sequencing
• Write, produce and edit on Final Cut special projects and day-of packages for newscasts

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsibility for writing for early evening news and late news broadcasts for Fox station
• Wrote, edited and coordinated execution of both local and national daily news pieces
• Coordinated, researched, wrote and executed news segments for 9pm newscast
• Created graphics using Axis and Photoshop for newscasts
• Created multi-media presentations, video clips and story highlight segments for station website
• Coordinated with local police and rescue resources, photographers, reporters and anchors to ensure coverage of key media stories and events

Greater New Orleans Area

• Responsibility for morning, midday and early evening news broadcasts for NBC affiliate
• Increased 2009 ratings by 40% for midday and weekend morning newscasts during February, May and July books compared to 2008 ratings
• Write, edit and coordinate execution of both local and national daily news pieces
• Research, propose and field produce weekly segments for medical editor
• Facilitate collaboration of anchors, photographers, reporters, directors and engineering through communication of story priorities and creation of detailed and organized show scripts
• Repackage national media pieces to fit station graphics and script formatting

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Formatted newscast rundowns and scripts for producers, directors and technical directors
• Printed, organized and distributed newscast rundowns and scripts to anchors, directors and producers
• Actively participated in daily meetings with producers to select optimal archived videos for newscast stories
• Collaborated with video editors to format news video footage for archiving
• Coordinated with police and fire departments to obtain quick and accurate information on breaking stories
• Field produced with video photographers at events to get video and sound bites for weekend newscasts

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism, Criminal Justice

Journalism

One-month selective immersion program concentrating in media studies, media law and socioeconomic change in China.